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Mexican postage stamp commemorating Petróleos Mexicanos (40th anniversary)
Box 7- 1978
Mexican postage stamp issued to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the nationalization of all petroleum reserves, facilities, and foreign oil companies in Mexico and the establishment of the state-owned petroleum…
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Mexican postage stamp commemorating Petróleos Mexicanos (20th anniversary)
Box 7- 1958
Mexican postage stamp issued to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the nationalization of all petroleum reserves, facilities, and foreign oil companies in Mexico and the establishment of the state-owned petroleum…
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Mexican postage stamp celebrating the Congreso Mundial del Petróleo
Box 5- 1967
Mexican postage stamp celebrating the 7th World Petroleum Congress, which was held in Mexico City from April 2-9, 1967. The stamp features an illustrated depiction of an oil refinery.
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Mexican postage stamp commemorating the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (40th anniversary)
Box 4- 1976
Mexican postage stamp issued to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México (the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) on January 1, 1936. Established during the…
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Mexican postage stamp commemorating the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (25th anniversary)
Box 4- 1951
Mexican postage stamp issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México (the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico) on January 1, 1936. Established during the…
- Creator Of Work Mexico. Dirección General de Talleres de Impresión de Estampillas y Valores
- Subject Commemorative postage stamps, Mexico, Postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexico), Women in science, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Science--Study and teaching
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Stamp honoring Andrés Manuel del Río (1764-1849)
Box 1- 1965-Feb-18 (Date of issue)
Mexican postage stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Spanish-Mexican scientist, engineer, and naturalist Andrés Manuel del Río (1764-1849) best known for his discovery of compounds of vanadium in…
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First Day Cover commemorating chemistry
Box 6- 1976
Colorano cachet includes a silk depiction of two alchemists in a laboratory. Stamp depicts chemical glassware and fluids.
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Filipino postage stamp commemorating the Philippine Islands (Colonial Era)
Box 6- Before 1946
Depicts the Salinas Salt Springs in the Philippines.
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Louis Jacques Thénard
Box 5- 1957
Depicts Louis Jacques Thénard, French chemist and the founder of the Société de Secours des Amis des Sciences.
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First Day Cover commemorating Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany
Box 4- 1957
Depicts Justus von Liebig, known for his work in agricultural and organic chemistry.
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Envelope with Swedish postage stamps commemorating Fritz Haber and Max Planck
Box 3- 1978
Depicts Fritz Haber and Max Planck, Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry and Physics.
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First Day Cover commemorating Otto Hahn's 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Box 3- 1979
Cachet depicts Otto Hahn's equipment and the nuclear fission of uranium atoms. Stamp shows Hahn's diagram of the splitting of the uranium nucleus. Hahn was the Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry in 1944.
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First Day Cover commemorating Niels Bohr and the 50th anniversary of Bohr's atom theory
Box 3- 1963-Nov-21
Stamps depict Niels Bohr, the equation for the Bohr frequency condition (an equation relating to light frequency and electrons), and a diagram of the Bohr model of a hydrogen atom.
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Chadian postage stamp commemorating Alexander Fleming's Nobel Prize in Medicine
Box 3- Undated
Depicts Alexander Fleming, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin.
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Postcard with French postal stamps commemorating the centenary of the birth of Marie Curie
Box 2- 1967
Cachet shows the Curie laboratory in Paris, and stamps depict Marie Curie with a bowl of radium.
- Artist Autier, Ph., Pheulpin, Jean
- Engraver Pheulpin, Jean
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women in physics, France, Women scientists, Chemists, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Cachets (Philately), Physicists, Postage stamps, Postcards, Women physical scientists, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Envelope with postage stamps commemorating 1901 Nobel Prize laureates
Box 2- Undated
Depicts awardees of the 1901 Nobel Prizes: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in Physics, Sully Prudhomme in Literature, Emil von Behring in Physiology or Medicine, and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in Chemistry.
- Artist Åsberg, Stig, 1909-1968
- Engraver Wallhorn, Arne
- Subject Postage stamps, Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923, Hoff, J. H. van 't (Jacobus Henricus), 1852-1911, Behring, Emil von, 1854-1917, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Sully Prudhomme, 1839-1907, Nobel Prize winners, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately)
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Postcard and Spanish postage stamp commemorating Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Box 2- 1967
Depicts Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of X-rays, along with an X-ray tube and an atom.
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Louis Pasteur
Box 2- After 1885 – before 1953
Postcard image is a reproduction of Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt's famed portrait "Pasteur Dans Son Laboratoire" [Pasteur In His Laboratory]. The portrait depicts Pasteur in his laboratory at the rue d'Ulm,…
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Postage stamp from Saint Kitts and Nevis commemorating Marie Curie
Box 2- 1975
Stamp issued during International Women's Year (1975), depicting Marie Curie, "discoverer of radium," by the former British colony Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (now called the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.)
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Women scientists, Chemists, Women physical scientists, International Women's Year (1975), Commemorative postage stamps, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Women chemists, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Anguilla, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Postcard and French postage stamp commemorating Isaac Newton
Box 1- Undated
Depicts Isaac Newton.
- Artist Lalau, Maurice
- Engraver Munier, Pierre
- Subject Postage stamps, Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727, France, Postcards, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps
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First Day Cover commemorating airmail and Israeli exports
Box 1- 1968
Stamp depicts Boeing 707, chemical apparatus, and heavy oxygen isotopes.
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First Day Cover commemorating the 2nd centenary of the birth of Antoine Lavoisier
Box 1- Circa 1943
Philatelic First Day Cover commemorating the 2nd centenary of the birth of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), who is widely considered the father of modern chemistry.
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Postcard with Yemen postage stamp commemorating the inauguration of new World Health Organization offices
Box 1- 1966
Stamp issued by the Yemen Arab Republic depicting Persian polymath Avicenna (circa 980 - 1037), also known as Ibn Sina, Abu Ali Sina, and Pur Sina, as well as red roses and the new World Health Organization headquarters…
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First Day Cover commemorating Japan's use of the metric system
Box 1- 1959-Jun-05
Stamp depicts measuring instruments.
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American postage stamps commemorating Joseph Priestley
Box 1- 1983
Depicts Joseph Priestley, often credited for the discovery of oxygen.